Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

[PPGuru]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

Wasn't able to catch the game but nice win tonite. Merrimack and UNH win also but UConn loses. Maybe tomorrow the Huskies will get a little more help than they got tonite. UConn@ PC, UNH@UVM and Merrimack@UMass tomorrow. Going forward I'd rather see Madigan keep Filipe on the #2 line and whoever dresses out of Picking/Schule/Rosenthal/Lerario on the 3d or 4th line. Filipe isn't going to contribute any offense on a lower line and he isn't going to bring much defensively to a lower line either. OOn the second line Filipe will at least chip in on offense.

[northeastern]

Go Huskies! Is all.

[Thiessen'sBetter]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

I know it was UMass but this offense is scary good with the big 5 forwards healthy. The 21-18-12 line combined for 4 goals, 5 assists, 16 SOG and were just a pleasure to watch every time they were on the ice.

[NU_Husky]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

Gotta beat the teams you're supposed to beat. Good win. Onto BC and then 4 HUGE games to close the year

[TheRevengeance]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

Official lines are out. John in, Schule out, Picking in the top six. Still no Owens or Pecararo. Wonder why they hung his jersey if he wasn't dressing. They've done the same thing with #11's jersey a few times thus far this season.

[TheRevengeance]

?????

https://twitter.com/GoNUmhockey/status/830138164174020612

[Gr8Sk8M8]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

Based on the photo tweeted by MIH Twitter, Pecararo is dressed for tonight!

?????

Oh...Men's Hockey...got it...

Wow...talk about unexpected...

[NU_Husky]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

Based on the photo tweeted by MIH Twitter, Pecararo is dressed for tonight!

[NU_Husky]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

Just heard Stevens' line took full practice yesterday with contact...

Great news. I expect him back tonight.

[Gr8Sk8M8]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

Just heard Stevens' line took full practice yesterday with contact...

[NU_Husky]

It sounds (reads) as though you all done a thorough post-mortem on a team that is still alive. someone has covered most of the points I might have covered, but I have a few thoughts to add.
Pond was never much of a scorer in the USHL. He was recruited to be a disrupter and PK guy. He has done a decent job on the PK, which is an area that the team has improved. He has learned to disrupt the offense. Unfortunately the offense he had disrupted is ours! He has a balance problem and falls down more than any player I can remember, but he does usually blow a tire while skating in a stgraight line. His PK is what keeps him in the lineup - barely.
I, too have been terribly disappointed in the two bu transfers, particularly Kurker. He is said to be a very good student. I wish him a successful career in business. This was supposed to be a "breakout" year for Griffin. No creativity at all. Jozefek never had a chance to develop as he has had a headache for most of the year.

The D has been a disappointment, but have been bright spots. Davies has super skills, but has to find better ways to get the puck out of the D zone. Flipping doesn't cut it. I place equal blame on a lack of D zone coverage and backchecking effort by certain forwards. Forechecking to create opportunities would have been nice, too.

On the recruiting front: Rizzolo is an "18 arrival. We are involved with a couple of forwards. Hopefully we'll get one of them (that's all we can afford). Either could develop into a top or middle six forward.

There is a serious backlog in potential 2018 arrivals on defense, as we've highlighted in our recruit projection page on the blog...obviously we don't know coach's plans but given the pedigree of some players recruited plus ages, I can't see too many people being pushed back. Any idea on that?

[HHound]

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That too. Pecararo, Jozefek, John, and Nolan were all supposed to be top six options with one of Pec/Jozy falling to the third line opposite Griffin. Between the four of them we've gotten... 35 games? A Collier-Kurker-Schule/Pond fourth line would be totally fine. That isn't how it happened.

I've noticed that Pond has been getting a good number of RW shifts in the top six as well and I have absolutely zero idea why. He's slightly fast, but he falls over his own skates twice a shift, can't hit the broad side of a barn, and has like one point all year. Why he's getting extra shifts is beyond my comprehension. He blew a tire skating into the offensive zone on Monday and caused a breakaway against. Unfortunate, sure, but avoidable considering you know he's going to blow that tire like clockwork.

It sounds (reads) as though you all done a thorough post-mortem on a team that is still alive. someone has covered most of the points I might have covered, but I have a few thoughts to add.
Pond was never much of a scorer in the USHL. He was recruited to be a disrupter and PK guy. He has done a decent job on the PK, which is an area that the team has improved. He has learned to disrupt the offense. Unfortunately the offense he had disrupted is ours! He has a balance problem and falls down more than any player I can remember, but he does usually blow a tire while skating in a stgraight line. His PK is what keeps him in the lineup - barely.
I, too have been terribly disappointed in the two bu transfers, particularly Kurker. He is said to be a very good student. I wish him a successful career in business. This was supposed to be a "breakout" year for Griffin. No creativity at all. Jozefek never had a chance to develop as he has had a headache for most of the year.

The D has been a disappointment, but have been bright spots. Davies has super skills, but has to find better ways to get the puck out of the D zone. Flipping doesn't cut it. I place equal blame on a lack of D zone coverage and backchecking effort by certain forwards. Forechecking to create opportunities would have been nice, too.

On the recruiting front: Rizzolo is an "18 arrival. We are involved with a couple of forwards. Hopefully we'll get one of them (that's all we can afford). Either could develop into a top or middle six forward.

[TheRevengeance]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

That too. Pecararo, Jozefek, John, and Nolan were all supposed to be top six options with one of Pec/Jozy falling to the third line opposite Griffin. Between the four of them we've gotten... 35 games? A Collier-Kurker-Schule/Pond fourth line would be totally fine. That isn't how it happened.

I've noticed that Pond has been getting a good number of RW shifts in the top six as well and I have absolutely zero idea why. He's slightly fast, but he falls over his own skates twice a shift, can't hit the broad side of a barn, and has like one point all year. Why he's getting extra shifts is beyond my comprehension. He blew a tire skating into the offensive zone on Monday and caused a breakaway against. Unfortunate, sure, but avoidable considering you know he's going to blow that tire like clockwork.

[PPGuru]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

I didn't expect too much out of the bottom tier forwards because i didn't think too many of them would dress. 18. 21, 8, 9, 17, 12, Jozefek, Pecararo and 19. That's a pretty good group composing three lines. I thought 16, 10 and 22 would be the fourth line to begin and maybe one of the other new forwards would play themselves into the lineup. It hasn't turned out that way as we know. (We gave up a SHG vs Harvard where Patrick Schule was on the ice. Not saying it was his fault. Saying I never thought I'd see him om the PP.) I did overestimate Davie's impact on the team. (First team USHL All Star last year - was that based on all offence? Weak year for Dmen in USHL?)

[TheRevengeance]

Re: Northeastern Huskies 2016-17 -- Great Expectations

Yeah, my brain jumped right over him. Either way, we're going to be slightly worse offensively next year, but it should theoretically be more than made up for with the new goaltending and some defenseman development.

Of course, we could also lose the other three or Cayden could be Ruck 2.0 and be a total trainwreck. Who knows.